"Mudslinging" Defined By Hillary Herself
Since Hillary found that the accusations of the boys piling on, accusations of her being Swiftboated from her husband, former President Bill Clinton, didn't get any traction and instead caused people to question the legitimacy of these statements and accusations, in the last debate the Hillary Clinton Campaign conjured several lines that they thought might stick (and they sure did in the first media headlines that appeared) including the accusation against Edwards of "mudslinging"...with some help from Bill Richardson and Chris Dodd.
According to this statement yesterday, John Edwards for President communications director Chris Kofinis released the following statement on the definition of mudslinging:
"mudslinging |mŭd'slĭng'ing| (also mud-slinging) noun informalthe use of insults and accusations, esp. unjust ones, with the aim of damaging the reputation of an opponent.
As in: Hillary Clinton said about Barack Obama, 'Now voters will judge whether living in a foreign country at the age of 10 prepares one to face the big, complex international challenges the next president will face.'"Now we know what Senator Clinton meant when she talked about 'throwing mud' in the last debate. Like so many other things, when it comes to mud, Hillary Clinton says one thing and throws another."
Not sure if Obama is getting stranger by the day and his comments somewhat odd at times or whether Hillary in these kinds of responses is really starting to show her true colors as she has stumbled repeatedly between the drivers' licenses answer, the planted audience question, the odd attack on Edwards...the list goes on.
Here is more on Hillary Clinton vs Obama on the continuing issue of experience as seen thru her stints as First Lady and him as a 10-year old living abroad. According to this New York Times story.
Fog may have diverted Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s plane from her campaign stop here on Tuesday, but that did not prevent her from continuing her attacks on Senator Barack Obama’s experience.
It was an odd moment. Mrs. Clinton, her voice piped in over a sound system, apologized for missing the event, expressed concern about the safety of food and toys from overseas and, pivoting off the overseas topic, tweaked Mr. Obama for saying on Monday that living overseas as a child had increased his experience in foreign relations.
Mrs. Clinton, who this week in Iowa has been making an issue of Mr. Obama’s experience, said the next president would face two wars and fraying alliances. She said she had traveled broadly and had “met with countless world leaders” and knew many of them personally.
“Now voters will judge whether living in a foreign country at the age of 10 prepares one to face the big, complex international challenges that the next president will face,” Mrs. Clinton said. “I think we need a president with more experience than that.”
That was apparently a response to Mr. Obama’s citing his years in Indonesia as a child as contributing to his knowledge “of how ordinary people in these other countries live.”
“I sit on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,” he said. “So I have frequent interaction with world leaders who come to visit here, and I take trips on various fact-finding missions, whether it’s to Iraq or Russia or Africa. But you know, probably, the strongest experience I have in foreign relations is the fact that I spent four years living overseas when I was a child in Southeast Asia.”